Yecheng, Hebei.

The Taizhong doctor sent by the Luoyang court, chariots and cavalry, crossed the river north, passed through Henei County, and arrived at Yecheng all the way.

Among the edicts brought by the Taizhong official in the court, there were happy events of Yuan Shao as General of the Chariot and Cavalry and Marquis of Ye, and there were also edicts of Jizhou Prefectures and counties to recommend filial and honest people and Maocai as usual in accordance with the rules, and to send officials to transport grain and tribute.

He was a minister with a high position, and was appointed as a general, and was also a general with a high title. He was actually granted a fief of a county. This kind of treatment was unique among the heroes of Guandong.

Back then, when Yuan Shao was the leader of the Guandong League to fight against Dong, in order to be able to command official titles and his strength was far higher than his own prefectures and counties, he also needed to call himself a general of chariots and cavalry.

And what the court now gives him is a real chariot and cavalry general.

After all, the Luoyang court, or Yan Xing, valued Yuan Shao's strength to dominate Hebei.

Unfortunately, this kind of beauty has not aroused Yuan Shao's interest at all. The Taizhong Doctor stayed in the inn in the city for three days with the edict, but Yuan Shao, who was ill, never met him.

So on this day, a group of civil officials and generals who had already learned the purpose of the imperial envoys through various channels rushed to see Yuan Shao in the mansion.

However, Yuan Shao seemed to have known in advance that his civil and military personnel would come today, so he sent someone to bring the civil and military personnel who had arrived in Liu Xu into the wing room first. After the number of people was estimated, he sent someone to lead them to the backyard again.

Yuan Shao's mansion covers a wide area in Yecheng, with a deep courtyard and a grand layout. When you enter it, you will see that it is full of carved walls, jade buildings and high pavilions, plus the rockery ponds and lakes that embellish it, the more you walk to the backyard, the more beautiful it looks, making people feel like they are in a fairyland and linger.

If some civil and military officials under Yuan Shao had seen such beautiful spring scenery in the mansion, they would have been crafty and elegant, stopped and watched the beauty of the mountains and rivers for a while. But today everyone is in a hurry and has no intention of watching the beautiful scenery.

Yuan Shao had been ill for three days, which means he had been idling the Taizhong doctor who came with the edict in the city for three days, and his attitude was unclear, which made the group of civil and military officials under his command quite anxious.

Yuan Shao has always refused to recognize the Han court after Liu Xie ascended the throne. Although he had accepted the mediation of the Chang'an court from Zhao Qi and temporarily quit the army with Gongsun Zan, it was just a temporary measure. Accepting Zhao Qi's mediation does not mean that he recognized the court.

Later, Li Jue sent an envoy to increase the title of Yuan Shao. If he wanted to make Hebei well, Yuan Shao put it aside.

I wonder if Mr. Ming this time should recognize the court, accept the edict, or should heal and treat it indifferently just like Li Jue sent an envoy to come last time?

Also, what are the thoughts of colleagues who came around me and want to make suggestions to Yuan Shao?

With heavy thoughts and thoughts, the civil and military officials, who were each in mind, came step by step to the pavilion where Yuan Shao was, under the guidance of the slaves in the mansion.

As far as he looked, Yuan Shao, the hero of Hebei, was wearing a scarf and wearing a regular dress, kneeling in the pavilion, enjoying the scenery, tasting wine and reading.

Last year, Zang Hong, the prefect of Dongjun, rebelled in the city. Yuan Shao personally led his troops to fight. Unfortunately, Zang Hong defended his troops to fight to the death. The army took a long time to siege the city. It was not until the end of the year that it captured the city and captured Zang Hong.

At this time, Yuan Shao looked like he was enjoying the scenery and tasting wine. With Yuan Shao’s broad forehead and broad eyes and beautiful beard, he felt less like a victorious general, but more like an elegant Confucian scholar, with a bit of comfort and leisure as "washing the dust after returning wine".

"See Ming Gong!"

When Yuan Shao saw Yuan Shao, the civil and military officials bowed to him. Yuan Shao smiled and put down the book in his hand. He waved his hand and asked the maids who were serving him to bring in a few more seats, and sat between the pavilions with his civil and military officials.

"You guys, come together today, are there any important things?"

Although Yuan Shao was confident, he still asked with a smile.

After all the civil and military officials looked around, Chunyu Qiong, who was the oldest in the military and had a high reputation, spoke first:

"Ming Gong, this envoy from Luoyang has been in the city for three days. I wonder what measure you are doing, whether to meet the envoy or put him aside. I am really confused in my heart!"

Everyone in the pavilion knew about the purpose of the Luoyang imperial court's visit. Most of them came here for this purpose. Since Chunyu Qiong had already spoken out first, everyone nodded and admitted that their purpose was the same as Chunyu Qiong.

Yuan Shao looked around the civil and military officials in the pavilion, smiled, and asked again:

"You guys think, how should we treat this envoy from Luoyang?"

"I thought I could meet you, but there was no need to obey the imperial edict. Although the court moved back to Luoyang from Chang'an, both Li Jue and Yan Xing were the remaining parties of Dong Zhuo, who were all hostages of the emperor and tried to order the thieves in the world. The Ming Gong occupied the land of Hebei and recruited the four states. He should eliminate these traitors and no reason to obey the imperial edict!"

Guo Tu, under Yuan Shao, clearly opposed the imperial edict, and he took the lead in expressing his views. Tian Feng, Ju Su, Feng Ji, Shen Pei and others also made suggestions, analyzing the situation, debating gains and losses, and discussing ways to deal with Luoyang's envoys.

Overall, most of the civil and military officials under Yuan Shao's command were the same as Guo Tu's views, opposing the imperial edict and disagreeing with the Han court controlled by Yan Xing.

However, as the discussion deepened, new differences arose about the attitude of the Luoyang court.

A few people engaged in Ju Su and others insisted on sending troops. They suggested that Yuan Shao should take advantage of the opportunity of Yan Xing's main force focusing on fighting with Li Jue in the west to send troops to Luoyang, protect the emperor and escort back to Yecheng.

The strategist Guo Tu, general Chunyu Qiong, chief clerk Geng Bao and others opposed sending troops, believing that they are in a chaotic world and the Han Dynasty has declined, and the Han emperor has not called many orders at all. Instead of spending troops to compete with Yan Xing for the emperor, it is better to concentrate troops and solve Yi Jing's Gongsun Zan and consolidate the newly obtained Youzhou area first.

In a nutshell, Ju Su and others did not agree with the Luoyang court under Yan Xing's control, but agreed with the Han emperor, while Guo Tu and others denied the Luoyang court and the emperor.

Ju Su was always known for his wisdom and resourcefulness under Yuan Shao's command, and Guo Tu was also an outstanding person with outstanding wisdom. The two of them had a confrontation. In addition, Chunyu Qiong, Geng Bao, Tian Feng, Xun Chen, Feng Ji, Xu You and others stood in their own teams, and in a blink of an eye they became two sides in a row.

Yuan Shao smiled freely in the face of these debates and did not criticize them. After a long time, he changed the topic and asked leisurely:

"How are the contacts between Wuhuan in Youzhou?"

Faced with Yuan Shao's disagreement of the controversial topic, everyone in the debate was stunned and quickly began to answer Yuan Shao's inquiry again.

Jizhou and Youzhou are both big prefectures. If they occupy two prefectures, the land of Hebei is completely in their pocket. However, Youzhou is different from Jizhou. If they often occupy Youzhou, it does not mean that they can control Youzhou.

This is because the situation in Youzhou is far more complicated than that in Jizhou.

The one who can't get around it first is the Wuhuan people in Youzhou.

The Wuhuan people can be divided into two types: Dai County and Shanggu, there are many Wuhuan tribes, but most of them are not subordinate to each other, and they also have conflicts with Tudihu and Xianbei, and the tribes restrain and consume each other, which is easier to deal with.

However, the western county of Liaoxi, Liaodong vassal state, and Youbeiping county, the west Wuhuan, known as the "Three County Wuhuan", is much harder to deal with. Although their tribes are fewer than those of Dai County and Wuhuan in Shanggu, they already have a clear division and a stable alliance. In addition, the old Wuhuan master Qiu Liju and his successor Tadun are all wise and wise tribal masters, which have continuously expanded the strength of the Wuhuan in the Three County.

The Wuhuan of the three counties has become a large force that cannot be ignored in Youzhou.

In the past decade, it has become common for them to kill Wuhuan's lieutenant, local county magistrate, and loot livestock population. Even the emperor and the others established one. Fortunately, Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, handled it properly at that time, so no disaster occurred.

Gongsun Zan of Youzhou has also attacked and suppressed them a lot in the past, but he has not been able to completely eliminate them. On the contrary, he was defeated by these united Wuhuan tribes and local tyrants in Youzhou and Yuan Shao's army. Not only did Gongsun Zan lose his troops, but he also lost a large area of ​​land in Youzhou.

Now Yuan Shao followed the opinions of his advisers Ju Su and others, and used the wealth and goods of famous masters to win over the Wuhuan Lords of these three counties, granted them the seal of Shanyu, gave them gold, silver and wealth, and also selected women of appropriate age from his own clan, recognized them as his daughters, and betrothed them to Wuhuan Lords of these three counties to deepen the relationship between the two families.

By pulling the Wuhuan of the three counties into his own camp, he not only gained the famous Wuhuan cavalry in the world, but also restricted the external support of the local tyrants in Youzhou.

Xian Yufu, Xian Yuyin, Qi Zhou and Yan Rou were allies of Yuan Shao's army when they defeated Gongsun Zan, but when Yuan Shao ruled Youzhou, they became an internal hidden danger.

Yuan Shao could turn a blind eye to their invasion of land and raising slaves, but Yuan Shao could not tolerate the fact that they had smuggled salt and iron, secretly maintaining a close relationship with the Wuhuan and Xianbei. If this continues, these Youzhou tribes will sooner or later become extremely powerful.

This is just like Yuan Shao, the prefect of Liaodong, was willing to surrender to himself, and would be tolerant of his behavior of establishing a private kingdom in Liaodong. What Yuan Shao liked was the role these local tribes brought to his camp:

Xianyufu, Xianyuyin, and Qizhou could help him stabilize his place, and Gongsun Du's family could help him resist the invasion of small barbarian countries such as Goguryeo, Fuyu, and Woju.

After the nephew, the senior official, was released from Bingzhou and the eldest son, Yuan Tan, was released from Qingzhou and made outstanding achievements one after another, Yuan Shao was also preparing to release his second son Yuan Xi to Youzhou in the next step.

However, his second son Yuan Xi was mediocre, but he was not as good as his eldest son Yuan Tan and his nephew Gao Gan. Therefore, before being released, Yuan Shao, as a father, had to help him deal with the difficult problems so that he could take office in Youzhou with peace of mind.

When Youzhou became generally stable, the elite cavalry of the Wuhuan in the three counties also joined their camps, and the grand strategy he had originally decided to "bound the river in the south, block the Yan Dynasty in the north, and join the Rong and Di people in the south, and compete for the world in the south" was basically realized.
Chapter completed!